Stuart Buchanan wrote: > John Denker wrote: > > I recently discovered that it is possible to fly the C172p > > (and presumably lots of other aircraft) using --fdm=ufo. > > > > This has the potential to be very useful, for instance if > > you want to pose the aircraft for pictures, and for navaid > > "flight check" missions. > > > > This really ought to be documented. > > > > Conversely the getstart manual ought to document the fact > > that in most other cases, a given aircraft cannot be > > switched from one FDM to another. The manual says the > > FDM is "to be chosen at runtime" but most combinations > > don't work, and most users will give up before they > > discover any non-default working combinations. > > I think you may be looking at an out-of-date version of > the getstart manual. > > A while ago I went through and re-documented the command-line > options. for the --fdm option, we now have the following text: > > "Select the core flight model. Options are jsb, larcsim, yasim, > magic, balloon, external, pipe, ada, null. This option can normally > be ignored, as the -aircraft option will set the FDM correctly." > > I think that is sufficient for most users.
For those interested, I've uploaded the latest version of the getstart manual to here: http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/getstart.pdf There have been a fairly large number of updates since the last release, including an updated IFR tutorial from Brian Schack and more accurate command-line documentation. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
